Apple has filed a new patent for a platform that may allow users to loan or resell their digital content.

The application was actually filed in 2011 and 2012, but it was recently revealed and might mean that it will be possible to pass ebooks, music or games to friends without having them to buy a copy themselves.

Visa has revealed its new Visa Ready Partner project to accelerate the adoption of new payment services and help people migrate from cash to mobile payments.

The project is targeting companies such as network operators, technology and mobile handset manufacturers to help them catch up with the complexity of mobile payments and to access the Visa IP and licenses.

Macmillan has joined the other US publishers in the settlement of the e-book price fixing case leaving Apple to fight alone. The case alleges that Apple cooperated with Simon&Schuster, Harper Collins, Penguin, Hachette and Macmillan to prevent other retailers such as Amazon from lowering the e-book prices. Harper Collins, Simon&Schuster and Hachette settled immediately with the Department of Justice in April 2012, but Apple, Macmillan and Penguin has decided to fight in court.

The Swedish company iZettle, which is compared to Square in the US, has announced that it has launched its services in the United Kingdom.The service is working with an application and a reader that plugs into a mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

In Bulgaria where paper is still king, accountancy and the paperwork surrounding accounts in general can usually be measured in meters. One young accountant Pavel Vladimirov has designed and developed a platform that allows accountants and SME's to manage all their accountancy related documents in one place.

Apple's press release is showing that the iPhone 5 preorders have passed 2 millions in the first 24 hours, exceeding the demand of Apple's previous releases. These numbers are twice as much as the iPhone 4S preorders saw and almost four times as those for the iPhone 4.

A research made by Juniper Research, based on the NFC acceleration and the sale of goods over mobile devices is showing that between now and 2012, the mobile market will expand almost 4 times and will reach nearly $1.3 trillion.

The data in the report is suggesting that the increase in the mobile payments industry will be driven from the sale of products purchased online and in mortar and brick stores via NFC devices.

These two types of transactions will make up to 54% of the mobile payments and will be given a significant push from factors such as the availability of NFC infrastructure, as well as the large amount of mobile and card provider's engagement in mobile commerce.

We reported earlier today, that some of Apple's devices, including iPad, the iPhone and Mac computers could be banned from import as part of a filling that Motorola made last week.

However, luck is definitely on Apple's side as not only that the jury in the Samsung case has ruled on their favor, but now that the ITC suit between Motorola and Apple has ruled that Apple does not violates the patents in question.

The Seoul court has ordered Samsung to stop selling ten products immediately, including the Galaxy S2, and banned four Apple products, including the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4.

There a lots of design similarities between the Galaxy S and the iPhone, such as large screens and rounded corners, but those were documented in previous devices, the judge said, given that it is very limited to make design changes in touch screen smartphones in general, and Samsung adopted different camera design and characterize its devices with three buttons in the front, he added.

With W8's launch this autumn, many of the existing users were annoyed becaouse their computer is preinstalled with W7 when W8 is coming out in a few more months.

Microsoft, however, responded with an announcement, claiming that anyone who bought a computer with preinstalled W7 between the 2nd of June 2012 and the 31st of January 2013 can upgrade to Windows 8 for $14.99.

AzonMedia are happy to announce that we have been commissioned to build Bailey sPlant Hire websites for both Bulgaria & Kenya. We look forward to building both Portals for the Bulgarian and the Africa market.

We have completed the upgrade of Igeos.net - Guzaba CMS is added for content management and we have built a Wordpress template based on their existing design so the site has blogging capability as well.